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PAD PLATE FOR HARNESS PADS.

Patented Jan. 30, 1883.

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UNTTED STATES PATENT @FFICE.

DUNCAN MOMILLAN, OF WOOSTER, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO WELLS A.UNDERVVOOD, OF SAME PLACE.

PAD-PLATE FoR HARNESS-PADS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 271,500, dated January3O, 1883.

Application filed November 23, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DUNCAN MOMILLAN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Wooster, in the county of \Vayne and theSt-ate of Ohio, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Pad-Plates for Harness-Pads;and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being bad to the accompanyingdrawings, which form a part of this specification.

My invention consists in attaching to a padplate for harness-pads aleather skirt by means of a button, and a pad-screw, covering and hidingfrom view the aforesaid button by means of a scalloped or other shapedleather cover, the whole forming a simple, strong, and durable modeotattaching the skirt to the padplate of harness-saddles.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents the go pad-plate and skirt withscalloped or other shaped cover as fastened by the button and pad-screw.Fig. 2 is an under side view of a portion of the pad-plate, showing theskirt secured in position. Fig. 3*is a top view thereof.

2 Fig.4 is a section on the'line 4 4, Fig. 3. Fig.

5 is a similar view, showing parts detached.

A is the metallic pad-plate, cast in one piece; B, the leather skirt,having suitable leather cover, 0, sewed upon it. The button D,

0 passing through the slot act the pad-plate A,

and also through the skirt B, isprovided with an extended head, d, for'the purpose of bearinginore evenly upon the skirtand preventing thebutton from tearing the same. The

slot or button-hole a is provided with an eye aiid an extension, a, thebutton D entering at a and being pressed into the extension at whenattaching the skirt B. The padscrew E, passing through slot f ofpad-plate, and ,having head 6 provided with a key-hole for operating thescrew, is supplied with a flattened nut, e, for locking the skirt topad-plate after the insert-ion of button D.

The mode 0t constructing my pad-plate is as follows: The button D isinserted in the skirt B and the cover 0 placed and stitched thereto. Asuitable hole is then made for the reception of the pad-screw, which isinserted therein. The button D is then introduced into the slot (6and-slid into its extension a. The nut e is screwed upon the pad-screw Eand tightened by means oi bolt-liead 6.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new tlielciu, andcesite to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The pad-plate A, provided with slots at andf, in combinationwithskirt B, having button D and screw E, as herein described.

2. In a pad-plate for harness-pads, the button D, constructed asdescribed, and attached to the leather skirt B, having a cover, 0, incombination with the metallic pad-'plateA and pad-screw E, as hereindescribed.

J. H. WEISE, A. L. ()LMSTED.

